Pattern selection cabinet



June 1l, 1935. H E NQCK PATTERN SELECTION CABINET Filed Oct. 14, 1932 Il, Il 1,

ATTORNEY Patented June 11,1935 y f y r UNITED STATES Vrrrrrlvr oFFicE Harold E..Nock, Newburyport, Mass., assignor to Towle Manufacturing Company, Newburyport, Mass., a. corporation of Massachusetts Application October 14, 19,32, vSerial No. 637,751 1 Claim. (C1. S12-107) This. invention relates to a pattern selection vide a display window. The front end of each cabinet more particularly for the display of the section I being open, adapts them to receive newer silverware patterns which a store may not drawers 20 within which selections of different desir-e to stock until their popularity is determined. patterns of silverware may be suitably arranged Accordingly a cabinet is provided in the form of for display beneath the glass I8 which is co-ex- 5Y a chest of drawers, in which each drawer except tensive with the draweropening (compare Figs. the upper one may have therein a representative 2 and 4) vFor this purpose each drawer is iitted selection of pieces of a new pattern, but the upwith the usual covered supports for knives, forks, per drawer may contain a lesser number of pieces spoons and the like comprising silver flatware. l0 of each of thev several new patterns contained The several sections Ill which have no inherent l0 in the other drawers. By reason of a glass cover means for preserving vertical alignment may be on the cabinet the pieces of the several patterns secured together in stacked relation by any suitcontained in the top drawer are continually on able means which will secure and hold them to-y display. Againthe upper drawer may be iilled gether as a rigid unit, as shown in Fig.l 1.. The l5 with pieces of a single new pattern for display means preferably utilized for this purpose coinl5 purposes and the lower drawers used to show prises a pair of angle clips 24 secured at eachv side a customer other patterns if not attracted by the of the bottom of each section and similarly secured oney on display. to the cover frame l1. It will be understood that Because stores do not ordinarily purchase even the base I5 is so constructed that no'ysecuring samples of all new silverware patterns, but limit clips are necessary on the bottom section of the 20 themselves to a selected number varying with cabinet. The clips are formed to provide dedifferent stores, the cabinet is sectional in its pending perforated portions 25 that overlap the construction. Thus, with the lupper or display sides of the adjacent lower section and screws exsection, a store may have one, two, or more lower tending through these perforations and into such 25 sections as the needs of its business require. The sections, secure the sections together as a unit. 25 size of the cabinet is such that it may conveniently The secured leg of each clip 24 is setflush in the rest on a table or on the counter thus placing the 4bottom I I of each section and in thel frame vI1 upper or window section at a convenient height for of the cover, see Figs. 3 and 4, to create tight joints the customers inspection of the silverware therebetween the ilush tops and bottoms ofl the sec- 00 in displayed. tions and permit use of the interchangeable These features of vthe invention will be best drawers 20 while insuring their easy running. understood and appreciated from the following Any .desired number of drawersmay be usedbedescription of the preferred -embodiment thereof tween the cover and base. .shown in the accompanying drawing, in which: In modern merchandising the more expensive Figure 1 iS a Despectiv-e View of a sectional and nner grades of silverware may not be kept in 35 pattern selection cabinet constructed inaccordstock for sale, samples being maintained for ance with the invention; display and selling purposes, the customer order- Fig. 2 is a perspective view of one of the cabinet 4ing from the samples. The convenient and atdrawer receiving sections; tractive displaying of such merchandise as silver- 40 Fig. 3 is a sectional view through one-of the ware is an important factor and the improved 40 drawer receiving sections; and display cabinet is particularly adapted to this i Fig. 4 is a perspective inverted view of the tran's-` purpose. Each drawer may contain a single patparent cover member for the cabinet. tern of the silverware and each drawer may be The improved pattern selection cabinet is made labeled with the pattern name vplate 255, as shown up of a plurality of rectangular sections I0 havin Fig.. 1. The newest pattern may be located 45 ing a bottornvl I, side walls I2 and a rear wall I4 in the top drawer, to be continually on display, the top edges of which vare plane and flush with but any one of the other drawers may instantly each other, see Fig. 2. Their bottoms also are be substituted therefor in order to place the patush as shown. Severalsuchsections are shown terntherein on display. As illustrated in Fig. 1 as stacked together in Fig. 1 to form a sectional the top drawer contains a few pieces each, of 50 cabinet which may be composed of any desired several patterns, larger selections of which may number of sections. A suitable base I5 is provided be found in the several underlying and labeled for supporting the sections and a top or cover I6, drawers. in the form of a frame I1 vabout a pane of glass The nature and scope of the invention having 05 I8, is adapted to rest on the top section and probeen indicated, and its preferred,` embodiment 55 having been specifically described, what is claimed as new, is:-

A pattern selection cabinet composed of a stack of open front sections each consisting of a rfloor, two side walls and a rear wall, the top edges of said three walls being all in one planeA and the bottom of the section being wholly in a single parallel piane, whereby said sections are devoid of intertting construction and in any order in vwhich they may be piled the upper sec,-

`tion will present a piane top face, a drawer tting into each section the front of each drawer closing the open front of its section and the oor of the section above forming a cover for each drawer except for the drawer in the top section, a transparent cover for said top drawer consisting ofy a glass adapted to display the contents of the drawer and a frame holding said glass laid upon the edges of the top section, and means for holding said sections and'top framerfrom relative I movement when stacked, said sections all being of the same size whereby the top drawer may be replaced by'any other drawer and vary the pat 10 tern displayedbeneath the transparent cover.`

HAROLD E. NOCK. 

